Something about the iPhone I just realised today

[chrishansenhome]

A friend sent me an email with the address of his office in it and an invitation to lunch. Normally I would have laboriously re-typed it into the iPhone calendar. It then occurred to me that if I opened Google Calendar, cut-and-pasted the address into that, added the name of my friend and the time of the appointment, it would sync into my iPhone without my having to type much of anything. I did a Patrick Stewart and said, "Make it so" and it did.

Now this is a "Doh!" moment for me, but I will now be doing a lot more of it. While I've gotten good at the iPhone's keyboard, not having to type anything in particular and do everything on my desktop is cool. As a relative oldster as far as this kind of stuff is concerned, I sometimes don't make the connections I should. Once I do, though, I just run with it.

Comments

[thoburn.livejournal.com]

oh, google calender works like mobile me.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

Yes, and it's free, too. (Am I right in saying that MobileMe costs something??)

Brink

[am0.livejournal.com]

This morning I watched last week's episode of Josh Zepp's Brink. One story concerned a device made because some geek saw something similar portrayed in a science fiction movie and decided it was possible with current technology, moving computer displays in space with just gestures. His device used a small projector and a cellular phone camera to track colored plastic tips on his fingers so he could do the equivalent of iPhone gestures anywhere without touching any kind of device. Everything was projected onto the nearest surface.

In a similar story, Microsoft claimed they were going to produce something similar within the next couple of years ... and at a reasonable price.

You'll know you have a good idea when somebody steals it and claims to have invented it themselves.